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Monday, October 10, 2011

On Being a Better Ancestor - Memories

“Tell me about the olden days.” I can remember asking my
parents to tell me what life was like when they were young. But now they are
gone, and there are so many more questions I would like to ask.

Preserving memories is an important aspect of being a good
ancestor. One of the methods that can be used is to write about them in blog
posts. There are many resources available to use as writing prompts. Here are
just a few:

Legacy Family Tree, as part of
its genealogical software program, has an “interview questions report.”

I must confess I intended to start doing this at the
beginning of the year, using Amy Coffin’s series. But I haven’t....and now must
catch up! My plan is to write 7 posts per week including the prompt for the
current week and several from previous weeks until I am back on track.

I’ve created a blog just for these posts—52 Weeks of Personal History—and
published three posts. The posts are “dated” according to the week when the
prompt was originally scheduled to be written. Once the year is over, my goal
is to publish a “blog book” that can become part of my genealogy legacy.